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Thanks Taron,Taron wrote:Yes, tip #1: Tune everything properly. I think, this will monumentally boost your tracks, if you manage to decide for a key (tonic) to rule your piece and then pay attention to all tonal sounds to work actively inside that key. You have this odd wobble bass next to the highly tonal kick drum, both of which utterly ignore what ever the rest of the music is doing.
Bring all that stuff together! Try it! You can even let the bass follow a so-called harmony progression, accompanying it "correctly", if you wished for such a thing. Most important, though, all the sounds really want to belong to each other or at least belong to the same song playing at the time, it will make a MASSIVE difference.
The other thing I noticed on tracks like that is they benefit from some dynamics, such as a different or quieter kick in the beginning, which will then get replaced by a stronger kick to indicate full steam ahead, you know! Overall dynamics, which will give the song structure and drive.
By the way: "Conventional" doesn't necessarily mean techno/house-metronome kicks, but simply an accent repetition in rhythm that one can relate to. But "house" isn't a bad style to play with!
... already on my master channeldoctorbob wrote:Sure to be seeing this in later OSC's methinks.Gonna see what it does on my track - the SlickEQ on is only doing a little, and quite subtle, EQ.
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Just looking at it now as I was already thinking about wanting some multiband comp - how does it compare say to ReaXcomp? There are a few bands I needed to tame, but could not do easily at track level, and not with SlickEQ (and yes, you are on the money there, great for high end boost, super smooth - still subtle, but very nice).z.prime wrote: ... already on my master channel
Recommendation: SlickEQ is good to use for a nice smooth treble boost. Nova should be good as a sort of multiband compressor & mild overall EQ (not as good as a real, capable multiband compressor, but better than any of the free stuff).
I'm using Nova on my master bus for light overall EQ and multi-band compression (super light though) and I have to say, for free software, I think it's awesome. I've also been using Limiter No6 as the last step in the chain and while it's taken some experimentation as it's a little complicated with many choices for settings, it also sounds very, very good. ReaEQ seems ok. This is my first project on Reaper and once I got past some synth related midi issues, I'm finding it to be a very good working environment.doctorbob wrote:Just looking at it now as I was already thinking about wanting some multiband comp - how does it compare say to ReaXcomp? There are a few bands I needed to tame, but could not do easily at track level, and not with SlickEQ (and yes, you are on the money there, great for high end boost, super smooth - still subtle, but very nice).z.prime wrote: ... already on my master channel
Recommendation: SlickEQ is good to use for a nice smooth treble boost. Nova should be good as a sort of multiband compressor & mild overall EQ (not as good as a real, capable multiband compressor, but better than any of the free stuff).
Basic EQ use looks similar to ReaEQ as well (but I suspect there's more behind the scenes here). Just like ReaEQ for simple surgical EQ, which is all I have had to do this time round - chopping top, bottom and then boost/cut the rest to taste - easy peasy.
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